avocado pear

1. 1.

   a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed

   Synonymsavocadoalligator pearaguacate

   Broaderedible fruit

   Part ofavocado

Questions about avocado pear

What does avocado pear mean?

avocado pear means "a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed".

What is another word for avocado pear?

Close synonyms include avocado, alligator pear, aguacate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avocado pear a common word?

avocado pear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.